Hot-water bag



April 19, 1927. 1,625,018

T. BLUNT nor WATER BAG Filed Au 29. 1925 INVENTOR TOEAN BW T A TTORNE YSPatented Apr. 19, 1927.

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HOT-WATER BAG.

Application filed August 29, 1925. Serial No. 53,261.

My invention relates to hot water bags, designed as a twofold bagarrangement adapted to be applied to two surfaces of the body, and themain object of my invention is the provision of a novel and improvedarrrangement which will possess the desired features of simplicity,convenience and etliciency, and which will be economical in manufacture.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of partshereinafter de scribed and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which, I

Fig. 1 represents a top plan view of my improved hot water bag; and

Fig. 2 is a cross section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

The preferred embodiment of my invention, as illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, comprises a hot Water bag having two compartments3 and 4 connected by opposing conduit parts 5 and 6 to allow the waterto pass from one compartment to the other. My improved bag is furtherconstructed with a transverse opening 7,10- cated between thecompartments 3 and 4 and as well between the conduits 5 and 6, asclearly illustrated in the drawing. The transverse opening 7 is of suchdimension that the head of a person who desires to utilize the bag maybe passed therethrough so that the conduit parts 5 and 6 will reston theshoulders of the wearer, with one of the compartments resting upon thechest and the other of the compartments resting upon the back of thewearer. While the bag is preferably made of rubber, it may be producedfrom any materia-lsuitable for the provision of watertight compartments3 and 4 with their connecting water-tight conduits 5 and 6.

The bag is suitably provided with a filling opening 8, which ispreferably located in one of the water pipe conduits, herein shown to bethe conduit 5. The filling opening is threaded in the usual way and isclosed by a screw-threaded stopper 9. The filling opening and stoppertherefor, thus located on one of the conduits, bring these parts on oneof the shoulders when the bag is applied over the head and leaves thecompartments 8 and t entirely free of these annoying project-ions.

For securing the bag in position upon the person of the wearer, thecompartment 3 is provided with fastening means in the form of projecting.strap members 10, while the other compartment 4 is provided withcooperating fastening members in the form of buckles 11. Nhen the bag isapplied over the head of the wearer, these cooperating fastening membersextend across the sides of the person of the wearer.

The bag, thus constructed, may also be placed to advantage over theabdomen and over the kidneys; and in order to connect it about the bodyof the wearer in this position, one of the compartments herein shown ascompartment 3 is provided with fastening means in the form of a strap 12while the compartment l is provided with cooperative fastening means inthe form of a buckle 13. For those suffering from headache, toothache,earache or other head troubles, the bag may also be used to advantage,since one compartment may be applied to one side of the head while theother compartment is applied to the opposite side of the head. Manyother usees of this novel two-fold bag construction will readily suggestthem selves.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form ofconstruction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable ofvariation and modification without departing from the spirit of theinvention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precisedetails of construction set forth, but

desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as comewithin the scope of the appended claim.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is:

A water bag construction comprising sides forming confining walls fortwo main hollow sections and two narrow hollow necks connecting saidmain sections, there being a central space bounded by the freeunobstructed walls of the main sections and the narrow necks said narrownecks being continuous of the walls forming the sections and providingpassageways between said main sections at opposite sides of said centralspace, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this Specification.

TORAN BLUNT.

